Gierl, Heribert; Bambauer, Silke - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 54 (2002) 4, pp. 335-350
The network idea has been gaining growing attention in the last decades. We analyse the applicability of networks as a mechanism that protects suppliers from buyers’ opportunism. So-called information networks can function as a safeguard for dependent suppliers by reducing information...